Rawls

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Rawls, John 1921-2002. American political philosopher whose A Theory of Justice (1971) revived the social contractarian tradition by arguing that all members of society would support the same principles of justice under conditions that guarantee impartiality.

I admire Brink's intellectual prowess, but I think that trying to overcome the political power of the AARP and teachers 'unions with "some kind of reconciliation between Hayek and Rawls" is like walking into a gunfight holding a fork and spoon.

I pursue this primary objective in some detail because this document has gone unnoticed in the voluminous scholarly literature on Rawls and religion. 6 The relation between this Rawls and the later Rawls, or constructed images of the later Rawls, is certainly remarkable.